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Rather Boring Documentary from DeRenzy
Michael_Elliott9 December 2016
Innocents Abroad (1971)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Here's another Alex de Renzy "documentary" that has him traveling to London, the Netherlands and various other foreign locations as we take a look at various forms of sexuality.

The majority of the running time takes place inside a dark room where live sex acts are performed. These scenes cross into the hardcore so obviously the entire "documentary" feel was just an excuse to be able to show live sex. The majority of the sex takes place on this stage and sometimes it's woman on woman, other times man on woman and sometimes there are dildo shows with the women. If you're a fan of the 70's pornos then you might find some mild entertainment out of this thing but I doubt it.

The director's SEXUAL ENCOUNTER GROUP was actually a lot more entertaining since it introduced us to some of the people that we would be watching. The majority of this film takes place in a dark room with some boring sex scenes. What footage we do get with actual people is rather boring and you're certainly never interested in anyone you're watching. Even worse is some bizarre footage of locals that have nothing to do with the plot.

Even worse is the fact that this thing really drags itself out to 94-minutes, which is about sixty-minutes too long.
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8/10
Racy documentary on the early 1970's European sex trade
Woodyanders5 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This documentary on the sex trade and loosening moral climate of Western Europe in the early 1970's covers everything from prostitution to live sex shows to striptease acts in engrossingly explicit detail. The globe-trotting locations add a distinctly tangy exotic flavor while the lively narration rattles off all kinds of nifty facts on increasingly lax laws pertaining to public displays of carnal activities and cracks all kinds of silly groan-inducing jokes throughout. The great footage of seamy red light districts that are featured all over Europe include scuzzy sex shops, seedy nightclubs (the dimly lit live sex shows enacted on the stages of these places are extremely raunchy in the best way possible), and sleazy porn theaters. The funky-throbbing soundtrack hits the get-down groovy spot. Shot in a rough'n'ready verite fashion by noted adult filmmaker Alex de Renzy, this pleasingly sordid time capsule of a long bygone era of radical libertine permissiveness packs quite a sizzling punch.
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